{"id":1115,"date":"2012-05-23T23:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2012-05-25T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:48:13","slug":"asia-trip-24-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2012\/05\/asia-trip-24-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"asia trip 2\/4 &#8211; singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1168\" title=\"soho \/ 'city' district\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2336-e1337896990750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2336-e1337896990750.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2336-e1337896990750-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the city shocked me &#8211; it&#8217;s so green, clean and uncrowded compared to Hong Kong. i still don&#8217;t understand where is the trick &#8211; Singapore seems to be wealthier yet prices were slightly lower than in HKG. i did not have much time &#8211; so i have only seen the central parts. i&#8217;ve stayed in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=1.282434,103.843927\">some<\/a> cheap hotel in the china town ~500m away from the &#8216;city&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>in the park <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Canning\">Fort Canning<\/a>, by a pure luck, i got into what turned out to be summer outdoor theater showing Shakespeare&#8217;s Twelfth Night Essay. my understanding of classical English is pretty bad but it was fun to watch anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2284.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1171\" title=\"'city', Merilon fountain - symbol of Singapore\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2284-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2284-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2284.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2436.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1172\" title=\"Shakespeare in the [cunning fort] park - twelfth night essay\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2436-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2436-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_2436.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>one strange thing &#8211; people in other countries i&#8217;ve visited during the trip &#8211; Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines &#8211; were much more cheerful while Singaporeans appeared more uptight, less joyful. anyway &#8211; it would be great to be able to come back to Singapore again, this time for 2 weeks or more and with some bicycle to see more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}